$1.7 B: Army construction available until 2017 for “acquisition, construction, installation, and equipment of temporary or permanent public works, military installations, facilities, and real property… and host nation support”

$1.5 B: Navy & Marine construction available until 2017

$323 M: Air Force construction available until 2017

$3.5 B: Defense-wide construction available until 2017

Includes $27 M for a new NATO headquarters

$614 M: Army National Guard construction available until 2017

$42 M: Air National Guard construction available until 2017

$306 M: Army Reserve construction available until 2017

$50 M: Navy Reserve construction available until 2017

$11 M: Air Force Reserve construction available until 2017

$254 M: NATO construction of military facilities and installations available indefinitely

No money can be used for contracts over $500,000 for projects in Japan, a NATO member country, or a country bordering the Arabian Sea unless the contract goes to a US company or a partnership including US companies

Prohibits EPA from enforcing an oil spill rule on farms for the next 6 months

Farm means “a facility on a tract of land devoted to the production of crops or raising of animals, including fish, which produced and sold, or normally would have produced and sold, $1,000 or more of agricultural products during a year.”

The oil spill prevention plan which EPA is prohibited from enforcing would have had to include:

Quantity and type of oil that could be spilled

Map of areas that would be affected by a spill

Written commitment of manpower, equipment, and materials required to control and remove spilled oil

Emergency response plan

Get the plan certified by an engineer

Put up containment and diversionary structures

Report spills over 1,000 barrels

Report multiple spills over 42 barrels that happened in the same 12 month period, including the cause of the failure

Title V—Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies

Section 1502

$3.1 B: Unemployment insurance

Section 1510

$2.3 B: Child Care block grant

Section 1511

$33.5 M: Head Start

Title VI—Legislative Branch

Section 1601

$193,400 to Irene Hirano, widow of Senator Daniel K. Inouye

Section 1605

$61 M: Fix the Capitol Dome

Title VII—Department of State, Foreign Oper-ations, and Related Programs

Section 1701

$2 B: International peacekeeping activities

Section 1703

$3.1 B: International security assistance

Section 1707

$1.2 B: Embassy security upgrades

Title VIII—Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies

Section 1805

$2 B: Homeless grants

DIVISION G—OTHER MATTERS

Section 3001: Additional cuts

Division A: 2.513% sequester cut

Division B: 1.877% sequester cut

Section 3002

Sequester lives

Monsanto Protection Act

Section 735 of Division A (Department of Agriculture)

Section 411 of the Plant Protection Act prohibits regulated plant “pests”, like weeds, that are somehow considered harmful if allowed to be freely grown in the United States.

Anyone is allowed to petition to have a plant removed from the regulated list.

If the Secretary of Agriculture chooses to regulate a plant that was previously unregulated, this bill says the Secretary “shall” “immediately grant temporary permits” which will authorize the movement, introduction, continued cultivation, or commercialization, while the petition is evaluated.

Section 735 was slipped into the bill by Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri who has been given lots of money by Monsanto and other agribusiness giants.

A pipeline capable of carrying 90,000 barrels of tar-sands oil per day burst near Mayflower, Arkansas, forcing the evacuation of 22 homes. FYI: The proposed Keystone XL pipeline would carry 800,000 barrels of tar-sands oil from Canada to the Texas coast.